"'We Didn’t Really Want to Weigh In:' An author defends his decision to write a new book celebrating Henry Kissinger."
—Slate, August 15, 2018
“Oh yes I'm the great pretender / I seem to be what I'm not (you see)”
—“The Great Pretender” by Buck Ram, recorded by The Platters, 1955
Forget the old Henry Kissinger.
Never mind the coup in Chile,
Too bad about the slaughter
In Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos,
Who remembers those
Tortured bodies in Indochina?
Henry was the great negotiator,
Negotiating the best deal for
Democracy, Mom and Cherry Pie.
So all you hothead moralists,
You professors of American flaws,
It's time rethink the role of
Henry Kissinger, to reevaluate,
And to revise, but not, I urge you,
To regurgitate.
George Salamon respects Henry Kissinger for never dropping that German accent. Would anybody have listened to him if he had?